Thunder fans only mildly upset when told team is moving to Seattle

Canadian basketball bloggers J.E. Skeets and Tas Melas of The Basketball Jones took to the streets of Oklahoma City last week to deliver the fake news that the Thunder would be moving back to Seattle and be renamed the ThunderSonics.

Oklahoma City fans try to seem outraged, but as Skeets and Melas point out, they mostly just come off as polite.

“Apparently, (David) Stern feels bad about the whole NBA lockout, so as a small peace offering he thinks, you know, we’re going to give the team back to Seattle. How do you feel about that?” Skeets asks one Oklahoman.

“Why don’t you give them Toronto?” he replies.

When it is finally revealed that it’s all a joke, at least one fan admits she was more traumatized by “Twilight: Breaking Dawn” than the news that the team is leaving.